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Show twelve WQ men meric an Out of the worlds necessity has been bom the answer that is electrifying women the million housewives in America! npWENTY I Sixteen million of them able, energetic, country over. Wherever you are, whoever you are, you cannot escape its contagion. Greater usefulness to the world, greater wellbeing for the home and family, decreased cost eager women doing the work that four million could do. A nd the world is short-hande- d of workers Sixteen million women cooking, scrubbing, washing, tending children all day long in of living. sixteen million homes. S' What if twelve million of them could he leased for the world's reconstruction Already the astounding change is making its way into our everyday life. The cooking, the laundry and cleaning, the car? of the babies in sixteen million homes how can it be done by four million women? How can individual household drudgery be abolished? re- Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Americas sanest and foremost feminist, discusses this burning subject in Pictorial Review for February. $9,600,000,000, at a conservative estimate, would be released towards the worlds shortage of money and labor, by releasing these twelve million women for gainful work. Think what that would mean in France, in Belgium, in Serbia! In detailed, practical fashion, Mrs. Gilman tells. What she has to say about this mo6t But our homes ? Our men ? Our babies extraordinary development in the worlds man or woman can history, no forward-lookinafford to miss. Read The Work and Waste ? If they must suffer we have no right to change. It is the old,.old cry that has kept millions of women the world over non-gainfu- Specially good fiction in this issue g of Women in Pictorial Review for February. L Babies J more babies wanted! Who twill keep the Her cradles filled? wifely n duty Ugh ! Haw Mattie hated it be wifely was to be NOT to Jacobs eyes, unaexed, a Jezebel, a monstrosity. But to Mettle, tight That word I'Vfr wifely stood for so many delightful things you had to deny yourself. Movies and soda fountains and frilly clothes! Dishwasher for Jacobs family, thats all she was now. And so she rebelled! A feminist revolution in a Pennsylvania Dutch community Inimitably, and with rich humor, Helen R. Martin has told you 1 this rare story. What is Paris saying about skirts? SaT hundred thousand babies in this country die THREE unnecessarily every year and the is crying for more babies! Tte appalling waste of itl Think! And what is being done to stop it? Wrapped in Silk KATHLEEN NORRIS story of the year The greatest mystery Author of Mother ", "The Luck of Geraldine Laird", etc, D' answers this imperative question in Pictorial Review for February. In the same issue, Helen Rfng Robinson, first woman state senator, discusses this vital problem. Four years of war have brought home to the world that, more important even than the bearing of babies is the saving of babies. Unde Sam, too, among the nations has learned what sorrow-stricke- n mojhers who sit beside empty cradles knew long ago; that a baby is worth more than a mine, a forest, a municipal building. Just what is being done, what you must begin at once to do, Mrs. Norris tells you. Her artide, and Helen Ring Robinsons .keen analysis of the issue, are thrilling commentaries on Americas splendid baby saving achievements and plans up to the minute. the the figure came. Slowly, cautiously fire-etcs-pe veiled unrecognisable feminine figure. And in the dead of night la Washington! The woman spy! . , . Which of the two girls was this the two who had so spectacularly boarded the ocean liner in midocean from a German submarine? Rende? Or Rachel? Which? With consummate skill Clarence Kelland has sustained in this second installment the breath-takin- g mystery of his vivid novel. A regular $1.50 book in three issuca. A million and a half men and women are following breathlessly this greatest mystery story of the year. Bud-ingt- -- "1 nHansWaWM1 -- Back to Longer? Shorter? Narrower? frills and frivolities, now the ghastly war is over? .Pictorial Reviews Paris office, never dosed, but now more fully in operation than ever, gives, you in this February number a first showing of the most practical and chic iiTTii - r Birthday cards for the notes in spring styles. Color pages show dozens of styles in the correct advance shades and materials. youngsters! Color REMARKABLE SERIES with the February issue, will publish month after month e War Pictures. a new aeries of stirring for any of these $1.00 You would gladly pay color reproductions. remarkable full from the masterly brush the Guns, Taking BEGINNING full-pag- cut-ou-ts Such amusing ones that the children will love cutting out and sending to little friends. A whole dozen of them. No wonder the kiddies are enthusiastic over this novelty introduced by Pictorial Review. And there are adorable studies of the Twelve-tree- s babies. OF GREAT WAR PICTURES of F. Matariia, tells you more graphically than any words could how the German gun nests were . broken up by our brave boys. You will want to frame this picture and those that are to follow for their historic record cf the Great War as well as for their artistic value. . For February on sale now nr on - ' " " n copy' or $2.C0 for a whole years Subscription to Pictorial Review, 229 West 32th Street. New in your .town, send'- - 20 cents for a 'single . . tber.iB no Pictorial, Review Pattern Agent or newsdealer , - i Yost-Cit- y f |